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Show I Swayze Intended ; : to Commit Murder Letter to His . Wife Discloses Fact That He Intended to Kill Miss Alvord. TV ETROIT, Mich.., June ,25. Charles j !j Swayze evidently intended -to kill Jl Miss Eflle Alvord wh.en he asked her to meet him. at his ofllce here yesterday, and then kill himself. , This Is proven by a letter which 'he left for his wife and which, was made public today. to-day. This letter Is addressed: "Darling wife and children forgive me for tills last "terrible act 'ofTmy life. I God knowB I love you dearly, but our onco happy home Is ruined by my own weakness arid the plotting of malicious enemies." - The letter then tells how frlonds had failed him and ''turned tho cold shoulder"; says that "she" was only . tool In the hands of hla enemies, and conelude with a warning to his wife to bo careful of any enemy that conies to her, and asks her to try . and teach hlo little girls to think kindly of their father. Miss Alvord, who was shot by Swayze before he plunged from the eleventh-story eleventh-story window, is In no danger. |